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...author, perhaps driven to dementia by his efforts to persuade Americans to speak English (in Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue), retails a joke about an Oriental fighter named Kid Pro Kuo, "who gave as good as he got." And that one of the characters, a fight manager named Fogbound Franklin, speaks of an important victory as a "mild-stone" and ponders asking for a "decease and desist order" when a gangster tries to move...
...pilot of a fogbound jet circling over Moscow's Vnukovo Airport for an instrument landing was startled recently when he began receiving radio signals from "Prince" and "Angel." Clearly these communications did not come from the control tower. Equally bemused were listeners to an official radio broadcast on Ukrainian industrial production, which was interrupted by this message: "Ya Dunai! Ya Dunai! Mal-chiki i devochki, slushaite menya! Nachinayu peredachu dlya molodezhi Marinskogo Raiona [Danube calling! Danube calling! Listen, all you cats and chicks out there! This is a program for young people in the Marinka District...
Harvey displays throughout a moist passion for metaphor. Because a great deal of Christina's past is shown in flashback, Harvey wets down the royal palace and environs with what we must assume to be the mists of memory. Much of the movie consequently looks fogbound, as if it were photographed during a close night on the Grand Bank. Harvey requires Ullmann to run through fields to demonstrate exuberance, slouch in doorways to show anxiety and uncertainty, and practically pant after a handsome young courtier whose love she fears. "I want to be loved!" Christina complains to a wily...
...teacher at Wilson High School in San Francisco, I am very angry at the view of Wilson presented in your article "Fogbound Schools" [Feb. 25]. While it is true that there are many serious problems at Wilson, it is equally true that there are positive and exciting things happening. To choose only the negative aspects of the school and to ignore the very real positive aspects does a gross disservice to the students, who are fighting to succeed in a society which, they fear, is reluctant to recognize their efforts and their success. TIME'S reporter interviewed science teachers...
...entire Eastern seaboard contains only a few harbors deep enough to accommodate the great ships, and all are in Maine-on a coast famous for its beauty, sailing and fishing. To protect this unspoiled area from the danger of laden tankers foundering in treacherous, often fogbound waters, the state last year enacted strong environmental laws with stiff penalties on oil spills (TIME, Feb. 16, 1970). Last week, at hearings before Maine's Environmental Improvement Commission, those laws met their severest test to date...